Honda considers making hybrid cars in China
Afp, Shanghai
Japan's Honda Motor is mulling making hybrid cars in China, where regulators want more energy efficient vehicles to help combat the nation's choking pollution problem, state media said Friday. Honda plans to test demand in China for its Civic hybrid cars within three months, the Shanghai Daily reported, citing a deputy manager of Honda's China joint venture, Dongfeng Honda Automobile. "It would be a trial operation to test the market response before localized production begins," the official was quoted as saying. Toyota, Honda's larger rival in Japan, became the first foreign car maker to produce hybrid autos in China with its Prius model in late 2005.
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